Sunny Border Blue

Sunny Border Blue is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Kristin Hersh. The album peaked at #93 on the Official UK Albums Chart.^[2] It also peaked at #50 on the US's Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart^[3] and, #33 on the US's Billboard Top Independent Albums chart.^[4]

Sunny Border Blue
Studio album by Kristin Hersh
Released	March 12, 2001
Recorded	April–October 2000
Studio	Stable Sound, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA
Genre	Indie rock[1] indie pop[1]
Length	51:05
Label	4AD
Producer	Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh chronology
Sky Motel (1999) Sunny Border Blue (2001) The Grotto (2003)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	81/100[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Drowned in Sound	6/10[6]
Entertainment Weekly	(A-) [7]
Pitchfork	7.8/10 [8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[10]

Sunny Border Blue was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81, based on 15 reviews.^[5] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 79 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 7 reviews.^[11]

Track listings

All tracks are written by Kristin Hersh, unless noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Your Dirty Answer"		5:24
2.	"Spain"		3:54
3.	"37 Hours"		3:26
4.	"Silica"		4:23
5.	"William's Cut"		4:03
6.	"Summer Salt"		4:06
7.	"Trouble"	Cat Stevens	3:25
8.	"Candyland"		4:02
9.	"Measure"		1:09
10.	"White Suckers"		4:25
11.	"Ruby"		4:05
12.	"Flipside"		3:57
13.	"Listerine"		4:46

Charts

Chart performance for Sunny Border Blue

Chart (2001)	Peak position
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[12]	12
UK Albums (OCC)[2]	93
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[3]	50
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[4]	33